The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-29
Cocaine. ..........g rs., 60
Aqua deStil. ..oZ. l
n, K. Y. H., M. D.

Sixty grams OF cocaine Madam, /
asked, where did you get this pre-
scription?' She mentioned the doctors
came. How long have you known
DR.. -2' Five or six years. Well,
madam, I haven't any such amount of
cocaine in my store, and I doubt if there
is any such quantity in Chicago. If
there is. however, yor can't buy it at
wholesale for less than $780, The woman
was dazed. requested her to ask the
doctor who wrote the prescription to
call on me the next time he came to the
city, but have never seen him. l hold
trained druggist. Here is pre-
i ioeip'li for sea- a. grain Of strych-
nine. A dose of strychnine is one
si1tieth of grain. l saw at once
that the doctor had made a mistake
AID sent for him. He thought he
had ordered one-sixtieth of q
grain until convinced of his error by
glanclng al, the prescription. He was q
thankful man. Sometimes, however,
doctors are not so grateful to druggists
who discover their errors. once re-
fused to put up prescription, knowing
it to be an overdose. The next day the
physician came in laundering to know
why had declined to honor his pre-
scription. 1 told him he had mistsk-
emily ordered an overdose. He became
indignant. Hoping to convince me
that [ was wrong he said the prescrip-
ton had been taken to Mr.. W., another
druggist, that it had been put up and
the dose administered to the patient.
producing the desired result. asked
him to accompany me to the other drug
store and let me see the prescription.
He consented, and after looking at the
Quantity of morphine ne had ordered
owned up in surely way that I was
Had the other druggist put up the
prescription as it was written7"
mo; he saw thatit was an overdose
and took the liberty of correcting the
mistake. We have to be continually on
the lookout for overdoses. The doctor
who made this error has never been near
nay store SINCE"
"Has the drug business undergone
any radical changes during the past fl
teen or twenty years7"
Eyes. sMany lines OF goods which We
handled almost exclusively then We
scarcely touch now. There was per-
iod when carrisgemakers and iverymen
came to the druggist for their lubricat-
ing oils, but all that trade is now lost to
US. remember when our business in
Oh amois' skins was quite feature; that
has about disap peared. Formerly we
had almost a monopoly on tooth
brushes, and got from so to IS cents each
for them. Now we rarely sell tooth
brush. They are to be found in every
dry goods store, and retail 1t from 10 to
% cents. Years ago we had almost q
on perfumes and toilet soaps;
now you get them at the dry. goods
store. I have sold hundreds OF ivory
brushes and combs for from So to IS;
now combs and brushes are made of Gel
luloid, and bring only about a quarter of
what the ivory articles did. l remember
when people purchased the bulk of ia If
spices at the druggist; that trade Is
wiped out. Toilet POWERS, soaps and
are now part of ,he stock OF
every dry goods store, anS in the loss or
these art cles and Others l might name
We have been deprived Of50 per cent. Of
our business. We now nave TO wait on
fully three times the number of custom
ers we used to in order 10 take in the
same amount of money. l remember
the time when We thought nothing of
selling two or three pairs of toilet bot
ties in a day at SIS or $40 a PAIR. Now
these bottles are kept in the DRY goods
stores and retail for from 81 20 81 per
pair"
creased7"
Patent medicines mainly. We also
get increased custom growing out of the
peoples growing knowledge of the pro-
per way to treat themselves for q thou
sand and one little ailments. A Lady